Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow - Pikasprey
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Get ready for completely unnecessary touch screen features! Pikasprey takes a look at the first Castlevania on the DS!
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Another small fun tidbit: at the end of the Belmont mode of the game, Soma will angrily shout the name of the character you are playing as at the moment ("BELMONT!" "BELNADES" or "ALUCARD"). They left that line in Japanese though, so he shouts the Romaji version of that instead ("BERUMUNDO" "BERUNANDESU" or "ARUKADO")
“I can understand the sentimental value of this charm, but THAT’S NOT A STAT IN THIS GAME! If it doesn’t increase my strength, I don’t want it!”
Rho-star MKL this sums up every friendship in rpg's
Damn it that was my favorite quote too
So who want's to tell Pikasprey that they made Charm an actual stat in Fire Emblem? And they made it fairly useful? I'm fully aware this is a Castlevania video, but I just felt the need to comment.
Charlotte Shenkenberger Different kind of charm.
it was pretty obvious by the item description that it was going to be important to wear it towards the end of the game.
"A Japanese high school student with superpowers"
Isnt that how basically every anime starts
Except most anime don't have decaying, laser-shooting dinosaurs.
@@mastermindcow6210 But we have laser shooting vampire.
Which vampire shoots lasers??
If you only watch shounen, yes
@@DarkMirria1
Dio Brando
DIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOO
I love this game’s box art. Oh, not the artwork, no no no. I mean the box art where it’s a picture of the DS case (with the regular box art) on a white background. Perfection. Bravo Konami.
In the words of our lord and savior
"What were they thinking!?!"
There was actually an addition to the soul system. By having various repeats of the same soul, it would increase it's abilities. Msking repeats actually useful.
While making the souls complete trash, if you just have one of them.
That's why many people love the "Mandragora" soul, cause it's just extremely powerful and maximized from the get go.
You know what would've been a better excuse?
"The souls you captured before were bound to Dracula's Castle. When you escaped the eclipse, they remained bound to it."
Fix'd.
I know firsthand that it's frustrating when it feels like people only watch certain types of your content. Do whatever you're interested in my man, I'll always watch.
LTtrash
Well you cant blame people for liking a channel based on certain content...the proceeding to watch the content they came for.
CZ PC you're right, nothing wrong to like a specific type of videos a creator makes, but I'm guessing that he's referring to when people literally demands only one type of videos (in this case Pokemon ones), and they get infuriated when they don't get what they want
I mean
Still the same format
Just with some Castlevania goodness pit in the mix
I just want you to know that 19k people watching is not no one. I appreciated it and saw it randomly which brought me here in the first place. Compared to the other numbers sure it doesn't compare, but I still appreciated it
Gotta say that Gergoth was one of my favorite boss fights in the game. The backstory of the poor thing, fighting it while falling through countless floors and the boss theme made it very enjoyable.
There were some early screenshots from 2005 showing Gergoth chasing Soma in the first area, so when I finally got the game I was eagerly expecting it to show up
Yeah same. I think the battle with Gergoth was really badass. What other boss do you free fall from a tower and fight in midair. I felt like his strong criticism of it was kinda silly.
@@Laughy-Flaaffy Sylpheed Force in Alien Soldier. True you're free-falling in a cave there, not a tower but just wanted to mention a recreation of my Favourite boss in my favourite game of the 90s; Seven Force from Gunstar Heroes.
This was the only game in this series that I've actually played through the whole "Julius" mode.
Definitely one of the best second campaigns, with the switchable characters, exclusive boss and ending that makes sense inside the universe.
Hey this isn't Pokemon. Time to leave. Ha! that's a funny point about Pokemon videos. Anyway time to go. Oh, so that's what these games are about, interesting. But now i'm gonna pack it in. Huh, the soul system is cool. More games should have that... **17 minutes later** Man, this is my favorite Castlevania channel!
I was just about to comment „Hey this isn‘t Pokemon“ until I saw your comment. Guess I‘ll have to be faster next time.
10/10 comment, so true for most of the viewers.
Fun fact about dario and demetry if they were born in 1999 then they would be about 37 years old at the time we meet them not to shocking but Graham is way younger than he looks being 36 though he looks 50
Oh man, this was the first Castlevania game I ever played; I didn't even know it was a sequel at the time. I still love it.
That said, there is actually a difference between the Soul systems of Aria and Dawn. Souls in Dawn often start out with a power of 1/9 or 1/3, which would increase by 1 for every 1 or 3 souls you collect, respectively, whereas in Aria, all Souls just have 1 power level. This makes for even more grinding fun time, yay!
Poetic Abomination not so fun grinding
Same here. I haven't beat the game yet but this was one of my first ds games I ever got. I want to finish it but magic seal 4 is giving me trouble.
@@WERicana Don't worry, magic seal 4 is the worst one, number 5 is not that bad
Mr. Hammerhead the fight with death makes me want to die, abbadon is pretty bad too
Bishop Gale meh that overgrown bug is easy just use the killer clown soul and backdash cancel
Christian's girlfriend of a long time gives him a sentimental gift.
Christian "Does it increase my strength?"
GF "Well no, why would-"
Christian "Then I don't want it!"
Celia: W-why? I brought you back into this world...
“What do you mean “Why”? You just killed his girlfriend, what the heck did you think was gonna happen?”
😂 You have a point, sir.
Yes you do
I was surprised when I played the game and Celia reacted that way. I knew about the game’s bad ending but I thought that the whole point was that Celia knew the original Dracula turned evil over the loss of his lover and Celia was trying to recreate that process. She’s a cultist, so she’d be willing to sacrifice her life to bring the dark lord back.
@@casuallavaring I thought Dracula’s love life was private so I’m curious as to how Celia would know that.
"If it doesn't increase my strength, I don't want it."
this pretty much sums up how i decided my armor/accessory items going into this game
This game also had the best rendition of Bloody Tears in the entire series, to my mind.
Castlevania OSTs are nearly always fantastic, but this one is good even by those standards.
I dunno, Chronicles Arranged was also pretty damn awesome.
I'm in the miniscule minority, but SoTN on Saturn has my favorite rendition.
@@AceTrainerX3 I didn't even know sotn was on saturn.
I loved this game so much, but Aria of Sorrow will always be my favourite.
Fodimin Layton Same.
Fodimin Layton I love all save for a select few games like circle of the moon and I love the sequel along with the story but I love the art work of aria dawn is ok but it just pales in comparison to the original
I went through this game way too fast
Aria introduced the soul mechanic, which added a fair bit of variety to any given run of the game, but Aria also suffered from a very weak story, comparable to titles like Ecclesia, Portrait, and even Harmony of Dissonance. I mean, the final leg of the game is basically about 'defusing' the tension of an encounter with Dracula, by fighting a nameless faceless entity in what is effectively Zelda's Second Quest version of the Aria castle cut down to size. It feels like you're wrong-warping through everything you'd done up to that point, to fight an ass-pull monster.
Like, the 'idea' of Aria is very cool, 'being' Dracula and having to escape that legacy--but I feel like the story could be re-done with more TLC--perhaps illustrating how Dracula gradually asserts control over Soma, Prince of Persia The Two Thrones style, and maybe instead of fighting Chaos at the end, Dracula can actually split off and manifest as Soma's evil-side that Soma has to face off against, the way Dawn of Sorrow pitted Julius and co. against him.
Alas, given the current state of Konami I'd not hold my breath, but I suppose there's always Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night to carry on the tactical soul system Aria introduced...
Mine is Symphony of the Night
Necrophilia is just really early archeology
..... I love this comment
I'm stealing this comment and using it somewhere. I don't know where yet, but I'll find somewhere.
Rigor mortis, the process in death when the corpse becomes completely stiff. (You can insert a Lenny face here, I don't have it on my clipboard.)
Thy Jeffinater So what you're saying is that sticking my dick into a fossil is perfectly okay? Take that, dad!
No, it's différent.
The vampires are dead, but concious.
The humans are mortals, so when they are dead, they lose definitively their concious.
Then, to make love with a vampire, it's not necrophily.
It's just to make love with his boyfriend.
However, to rape a dead mortal, it's necrophily. It's illégal.
Speaking of Castlevania, Simon Belmont for Smash Bros! Who's with me? He's been around since 1986! He's been in 17 games! He's an original Nintendo character! He has a plethora of moves! He's perfect!
Asgorepapaya ain't he Konami? Either way, hell yeah dude. They have ZSS, so it's not like the can't make a good whip character!
Yeh castlevania belongs to konami. Rip castlevania
#FucKonami
Screw Simon! I want Richter Belmont he has a better moveset potential. However if Mega Man returns I'd be 100% in favor of Simon so a Captain N reunion could happen.
Hou Yi Pallet Swap, perhaps?
Dusty Parker I don't really understand Konami's ties with Nintendo or other game companies, so why is Simon being owned by Konami a problem?
There's a rom hack for this game that removes the magic seal touch minigame entirely and also restores the artwork back to the old style for every character. It also fixes some bugs, such as LCK being useless in the original game due to an oversight in the coding.
Just FYI to anyone wanting to play it. Look up Dawn of Sorrow Definitive Edition. It's a newer much better than the patch Pikasprey showed in the video.
Okay but Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow remake pack for the Switch tho... Ninty pls. Konami pls.
@Joseph Ellis me too 👍 Thank goodness we have emulators and they all work fine on most phones
@Joseph Ellis same
@@marksmania42 what emulator do you use for this game?
@@HausofHoneyy it's called DraStic and it's for mobile. The best way to play DS games is on your phone
Well we got Aria of Sorrow for Switch but not Dawn of Sorrow
The thumbnail looks like one of the transition screens in Jojos Bizarre Adventure that shows Stand information.
Kono Powa
Skeptical about Dio and Death 13 on Dawn of Sinnoh.
7:55
I first came across your videos a few months back. Two weeks ago decided to watch them all cause they are all so good. It’s straight content and no bs.
Starting from the earliest episode, I am here so far. Thank you for such good work
I was worried when I saw a Pikasprey thumbnail at almost 1am the day before an early meeting, but I clicked it too fast to notice it was a Yellow video. I can totally watch this while getting ready for bed.
MegaMinerd yeah the blue channel videos are almost all over the 1 hour mark, and for as great as they are they totally destroyed my sleep schedule
I'm at the same page as you, clicked too fast on the email to notice it was "Pikasprey Yellow" not "Pikasprey Blue"
This video was really pleasant to watch, I'd gladly watch a video about Portrait of Ruins and Order of Ecclesia. I love the metroidvania games, and you talking about it only makes it better.
The 3ds one is great too. I don't understand how it has such bad reviews.
I love all The references in this game
Especially The Time stop-knife Guy, he's referencing DIO from jjba part 3
To be fair, there are actually a lot of JoJo references in Castlevania
Like for example: Jonathan Belmont has the stone mask in symphony of the night, there is literally the soul dropped by the cagnazzo, that is the ORA ORA, it even screams that, same with harmony of dissonance with one of the moves, the Obviously not Dio battle, in which it even says "TOKI WO TOMARE" or something like dat, another boss may be Blackmore, a boss from Order of Ecclesia: he is named after a western musician (here, Ritchie Blackmore from Deep Purple), he makes dramatic poses and basically fights with a huge stand, and well... both are about a bloodline destroying a vamp, heck, they even came out at the same time
@@madafaka2666 and there's Jonathan Morris. just hold Up for a while in Portrait of Ruin and you'll see what I mean
Sorry, cant check it since I dont have the game, could you explain it, or at least send me a video @@wolfox7776 ?
@@madafaka2666 when you hold Up long enough, Jonathan will do a pose really similar to Jonathan Joestars pose
Oh yeah :V
Konami making JoJoreferences since prob before the 2000's
Me: Its time to go to sleep
*Pikaspray uploads*
Me: screw sleep *Watches video*
The average life of a RUclips viewer
Same.here and.i.have work in ten hours ._.
Me: Oh it's not Pokemon
*goes back to sleep*
I know this is a 3 year old comment. But it's the opposite for me in a good way. I find Pikaspray's voice really helps me to go to sleep. So I use his videos for sleep help. Well him and Gamechamp3000
New subscriber here! Discovered you through “Soft Lock Picking” and I’m really enjoying your content 👌
Same
Finally a in-depth look into one of my favorite games of all time
I’ve been getting into castlevania in the recent months and am also really addicted to your videos!
Mngalahad I want to get into it but the game is so expensive and I’m the kinda guy who has to play any game on the original hardware unless there’s a remake that is better.
Mngalahad ok. I’ll get 3 on snes and the collection on the ps2
Mngalahad I have heard the X games have amazing music. I can’t wait to hear it
Finally! I was waiting for this video for ages. Thank you so much for taking a look at this tale :)
I've rewatched your Castlevania videos so many times, they are my favorite videos of yours. I wish others gave them a chance because I really want to see more
Welp, I guess I'm one of the "nobodies" who watched and liked your other Castlevania video.
Hahahahaha!!
(But seriously man, your videos are always a pleasure, no matter the subject)
Love that one too, was my first castlevania at all. And i realized that i never play through the julies modus yet which is a shame. Time to do so!
I approve of this content. I would love to see more videos exploring interesting games like this one that may have flew under our radars.
I'm not a huge pokemon video game fan. the only reason i found your channel was for the Castlevania videos. I'm first Castlevania game was Aria of Sorrow and I loved your video on that one. this video was fantastic as well!
I'm actually rewatching these videos again. hopefully these videos will eventually get the love they deserve.
i definitely loved this game back in the day, so good. i even grinded out all souls
Your Castlevania videos got me into the series, and I’m almost done with symphony of the night! Thanks man
This is also my introduction to this genre of games and remains one of my favorites to this day. I can't even tell you how many times I replayed this game.
Great overview of the game! I got into Castlevania myself a few years ago, and Aria and Dawn or probably my favourite two. It's also become one of my top gaming series' and I can't wait for Bloodstained now!
It's worth noting there is actually another patch out there that completely removes the seals in the main game so they function just like in Julius mode (As in, you don't need to do them AT ALL). It also makes the touchscreen breakable iceblocks also breakable by normal weapons. It essentially makes it so you don't need to use the touchscreen at all. Much better for emulated play.
If you Google 'Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow No Required Touch Screen' it should come up at the top!
I still like Aria a bit more, but Julius Mode in DoS is G O D L Y
This might not be about Pokémon, but I think watching videos about only Pokémon can be tiring, so it's nice to see something different on this channel every so often
HyruleHeroHan yes
This channel is the only one you watch?
*When dad shows up in my life again*
Yo Pikasprey, huge fan. This video was great. It gave me a reason to revisit Dawn of Sorrow, which I stupidly thought I had beaten last week. It was just the bad ending.
Out of curiosity, how long does a video like this take you to make?
Izzy Nobre você quase me enganou
Sylvie Rose Enganou geral
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I loved the GBA and DS castlevanias, and was heartbroken when Order of Ecclesia was the last metroidvania in the series. I'm excited for when you get to OOE, it was really interesting and had probably my favorite gameplay setup of any of the games, even if the exploration elements weren't as strong.
(Also Gergoth was such a royal pain my first time through! On replays I realized how his attacks were telegraphed and avoidable, but it took some hard learning)
I always wanted a good review of this games, and after all this years we have them. Thank you sir.
I remember being hooked immediatly when I played this game for the first time idk how long ago :D Nice analysis of the game and great to see it again !
I love Castlevania. These videos just hit all the nostalgia buttons.
I got the bad ending with Dario so many times before knowing there were more things you were supposed to do against him. But man, it was such a memorable journey to keep going back into the game until finding the right way of doing things, it felt like discovering a whole new world.
That video was great, thanks for making it! I loved your Castlevania playthroughs, and really look forward to you continuing with more!
I'll admit, it was an "Unused Content" video for Pokemon that was first recommended to me on youtube that got me to your channel, but since then I've watched nearly everything you've put out on both Blue and Yellow. You're my favourite let's player! Please just keep being you, no matter what garbage annoying people toss at you~
Make this a series! I'm actually getting interested in this!
Amazing video Pikasprey :)
One of the most important changes in the "soul" system, was the hability to improve your very souls!
In AoS, it didn't matter how many souls of each kind you had, but in this game, your souls become stronger as you get more of them.
For example, having 9 Ghost Dancer souls gives you the best luck boost (not that it matters much, luck is kinda broken in this game).
This also helps at leveling up your familiars, pretty fun
I discovered your channel through your Pokemon videos. But I am also a huge Castlevania fan, and Aria of Sorrow is one of my favorite GBA games as well. I was actually pleasantly surprised when I saw that you did a video on that game. I didn't comment on that video, but you did a great review. The same with this review.
I appreciate that you have more diversity in video game taste then simply Pokemon stuff. Would love to see you do more stuff about either Castlevania or other franchises that are not Pokemon!
I love your videos. Your voice is so soothing and you’re hilarious
It blows my mind that less than 20k people watched this! This is probably my favorite video of yours just because it introduced me to a genre that I've never played despite growing up with the Gameboy and the DS. You're doing amazing stuff!
They tried to make Soma look less androgynous in this game and I will never forgive Konami for that
Watched the whole ad. Enjoy the reneview :)
You're (almost) only RUclipsr who deserves it!
Gotta love chibi soba riding a giant skeleton dragon
This was my first Castlevania game and it's still my favorite. Can't believe they sold it like shovelware at a local supermarket
Dammn I really like your Castlevania content! These are easily my favorite types of game too, keep it on its very good!!
One of my favorite DS games! Would be my favorite if the touch controls were removed lol
There's a patch for that. And another that changes the portraits back to the old ones too.
Yeah, I know. I don't know how to install patches onto a DS cartridge though
Zachary Erickson it's a patch that changes the faces back to the old art style of aria. The new faces, like the enemies, were also drawn in the same style by an artist, it's really good.
ruclips.net/video/WXlfLj_Jq5I/видео.html
@@Rihcterwilker celia still looks like a man in a wig. i haven't beat the game yet, i'm half expecting to find out it is a man. if not i'm not sure why they chose to give her a man's face. all the other women in the game look like women.
You just earned a subscriber by a video that you didn't think would be as wanted as your other videos. Congratulations.
my favorite castlevania game as well. high nostalgia value.
Another reason for the vastly different artstyle in Dawn of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin was that Ayami Kojima was busy making the artwork for Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, which was the next big home console release for the series, and Igarashi didn't want to distract her from working on that.
I watched your Aria of Sorrow video back then and thought it was very well done. It’s my favorite Castlevania game and I’m glad when I hear others discuss it. Don’t get discouraged. :)
SOMEONE SHARES MY LOVE OF THIS GAME! FINALLY!
I know I'm late to this party but it's because of the Castlevania vids that I just sub'd. I like the way you present these moments of nostalgia for me. Cheers mate
I'm glad that someone also had an almost identical experience with this game. This game was on a DS
Arcard card that my uncle made me when I was younger, eventually I played it and had a good time with it. It even helped me make good friends with someone that had aria on their DS.
This has probably always been my favorite ds game of all time.
Damn me, we need another season of the Castlevania anime if this is the kind of awesome stuff they can draw from!
I just stumbled upon your vids recently, but I'll definitely watch anything you decide to put out, Pokemon or not xD
As someone who subbed for the Pokemon stuff, I'm happy to see whatever you wanna make. I just love your style. :)
Love your stuff keep up the good work!
Thanks for making videos about these less popular games. I love Aria and Dawn of Sorrow, and the series as a whole.
Pitch black instrution is my favorite Castlevania theme
Darn it Pikasprey, I watched one of your videos that wasn't about Pokemon!
In all seriousness, I kiiiiiinda wanna try this game out. Good video!
New Pikasprey video. Time to be happy for another 17 minutes, then wait two months.
Such a fun game. And Julius mode is really great. Also one of my favorite renditions of Dance of Illusions when you go against Soma. That track is amazing and really sucked me in. It and the tight gameplay made having to try 6 times to beat him surprisingly enjoyable.
You know, I was never super interested in playing these "Metroidvania" type Castlevania games, but watching your gameplay videos of them, I have to say I'm quite interested in checking them out. I tried Symphony of the Night a while ago, but the massive castle was just too much for me. Great video, keep it up!
I honestly grew up with this game! Nostalgia overload!
Some nice detail is that: This version of the Castle is a reworking of the Castle in Aria of Sorrow. Most of the areas in the original castle have a counterpart here, in the same place on the map.
Just a heads up when using Persephone's soul (the vacuum cleaner). It can be used on Death as well as MANY other enemies to vacuum up their projectiles. Actually, it makes a lot of enemies and bosses cheaply easy lmao. If you're struggling on Death for example when he sweeps with his scythe in his second phase, this is THE way to go to get his tiny sickles out of the way and focus on his scythe. You can also get kind of tricky by timing a special axe attack for invincibility frames etc. That actually works really well in phase one when he breaks his scythe apart into tiny pieces.
Man, the Aria of Sorrow just showed up on my recommendation out of the blue today and I was like, 'wait wut? Pikasprey did play other things than Pokemon and weird games?' lol. It was great, man. I just never know it exists.
Gergoth is my favorite boss in the game. I don't even know how they were able to create such a freakish thing.
One of my all-time favourites.
The one major complaint I had about Yoko's shop was that a lot of the best weapons required boss souls, which means you have to replay the game multiple times if you want to collect all items and get 100% souls. It's a pain in the ass tbh.
3:13 The change in art style was done because Ayami Kojima, who usually draws the artwork for Castlevania, was busy working on Curse of Darkness for the PS2, which was considered to be the bigger-budget console release at the time (2005) while Dawn of Sorrow was seen as more of a side-project.
I really liked that review video on Castlevania aria of sorrow, and I liked this one just as much! Good on you for sticking to what you like to make content of, verses popular stuff just for views. It's easy to go for views, but the really great channels make whatever they love most and thrive on it for years to come. At least, that's what I believe.
In any case, great video as always!
slightly off-topic, but does anyone remember the Dawn of Sorrows boxart which was labelled “Konami’s Best” at the top and had a white background with a picture of the actual Dawn of Sorrows box including the Nintendo DS label?
Nice one, Konami
There now exists a hack that completely removes seal drawing. and optionally adds Kojima portraits back. It's great.
It seems like no one i personally know likes the metroidvania games, sometimes they dont even know they exist so its nice to see videos on it
Great video dude, your original AoS review is what actually got me to give the series a shot! And man am I glad I did
FYI for anyone reading, there is now a hack that entirely removes the touchscreen gimmicks and not just limit them, so you can play entirely with just a controller. This makes it a vastly more enjoyable experience!
"Avocado tells Soma to _stay out of it."_
God I can't unhear Arikado as Avocado
Using the Une on Dimitri actually makes it borderline impossible to lose if you use a polearm, since you can still hit him and he’ll never hit you.
Sorry to tell ya, Pikasprey, but Gergoth showed up in Castlevania Season 4.
hold my head i wanna dawn of sorrow,
no tomorrow, no tomorro-o-ow
solving the main conflict in the Intro to DOS
Celia: _Teleports in_ "You. You're soma, aren't you?"
Soma: "... No"
Celia: "Understandable, Have a nice day :)" _Leaves_
"In Aria you just kinda used your most powerful weapon and that was it" -Pikasprey HEAVILY paraphrased
Eh, I think it might just be you. I actually switch between multiple types of weapons. Hell, at the beginning of the game, I was flipping between the short sword and baselard that I got from a zombie. Then again, I might just be crazy.
Honestly the greatest and most underrated RUclipsr